Actually it was the azteca who came from the north and founded Tenochtitlán, approximately 1320 because it was very near to two hundreds years before Cortés came ... their language they call nahuatl, it is considered central to the living uto-azteca language family, the 'uto' part is related to the US state of Utah which is where they had most likely migrated from some centuries previous ... yes they had lived for some time in between, possibly in what is now NM
The mexica name referred to the people of the Valle de México, and still does ... not long after the azteca arrived though, they assimilated and were calling themselves mexica, largely ... still used the term azteca and i forget how, not up on this stuff, but anyway the españoles got its usage wrong ... they got 'avocado' wrong too - in nahuatl and maya the tree is called ahuacate, which is also the word for testicle, maybe that's why C didn't like it, but if you see them on the tree you'll see why, they hang in pairs ... 'avocado' has connotation of 'soft in the mouth', so that works fine too
But - 'azteca' is name of a gold coin, one ounce of three nines fine i believe, and nominally twenty pesos ... or maybe the azteca is smaller, the centenario of the Díaz era is one ounce for sure .... but sure, bedeck me in those aztecas Mqurice, and prop me up near the bar -g-
It's early in this PoG trend, long ways to go yet, i've just had fun this weekend playing whacked-out permabugger because hey my juniors collection is over double what it was 10 Dec, hoo-hah ... long as PoG keeps making higher lows, like doesn't violate 275 by much for long, trend is my friend ... cheers, all |
